According to the Des Moines Register, Iowa is going to officially complain about the officiating.

Kirk Ferentz and Bob Bowlsby plan to express their concerns to the Big Ten Conference about the officiating during Saturday's 23-20 overtime football loss to Michigan.

The emphasis will be on the future, not the past.

The game at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City featured a series of calls that prompted Ferentz, the Hawkeyes' coach, to launch into an animated discussion with referees.

Bowlsby, the school's athletic director, updated the situation when contacted by The Des Moines Register on Monday.

"Coach Ferentz and I will likely provide some comments to the conference office for review by the supervisor of officials," Bowlsby responded . "The game is finished and the outcome cannot change, so all we can do is make our concerns known and seek to improve where we believe deficiencies exist."

Of course you know what this means . . . THEM fans will call the Hawkeyes whiners, an internal review will be conducted that no one will have the right to see, and you can count on some officiating incompetence in the next match-up between the schools. The refs had to wait two years to get back at Joe when he complained in 2002--and they made quite a statement. For whatever reason, they are very sensitive to these allegations. Perhaps they doth protest too much.